Fritz Lustig

Fritz Lustig (31 March 1919 – 18 December 2017) was a German-Jewish emigrant to England during the Nazi era.

[1] He was briefly interned as an "enemy alien", at Peveril Camp, on the Isle of Man, in 1940, following the outbreak of World War II.

[2] He then enlisted in the British Army's Pioneer Corps, playing cello in its orchestra, but was transferred to the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre in 1943, where he eavesdropped on captured Axis officers at Latimer House and Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire, known then as "No 1 Distribution Centre" and "No 2 Distribution Centre" respectively.

[1] While working for CSDIC he met Susan Cohn, also a refugee from Germany.

Several obituaries were published, including those in The Times,[4] and The Guardian,[1] and one on the BBC Radio 4 programme Last Word.